Reiterating research skills using Pressbooks: a case study from UQ Library
VALA2024 CONCURRENT 07
Wednesday 10th July 2024, 3.05-3.35pm
Kat Lee
- Learning and Research Services Librarian
- University of Queensland
Felicity Berends
- Outreach Librarian
- University of Queensland
Presentation: (coming soon)
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Abstract
The University of Queensland (UQ) Library subscribes to the Pressbooks platform, which the Library and our teaching staff use to create OER. In the last 12 months the Faculty Services Librarians (FSL) for Business, Economics, and Law and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (BEL/HASS) have created two Research essentials Pressbooks for the disciplines of Law and Music. This paper will explore how using Pressbooks allowed UQ Library to meet our key strategic goals of connecting people to information, building information literacies, and leveraging technologies and other benefits.
Kat Lee
Kat Lee is a Learning and Research Services Librarian at the University of Queensland where she supports the Schools of Business, Economics, and Law and Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences with their learning, teaching and research needs. She is passionate about providing Library users with access to high quality learning objects and experiences that assist them with improving their research skills. Kat previously worked at the Supreme Court Library, Queensland in the Research and Education team where she both provided information services to legal professionals and planned and created education materials and programs for students, professionals and members of the public.
Felicity Berends
Felicity Berends has studied across the humanities and sciences and resolved on a career as a librarian, where no knowledge is wasted, and she is paid to be curious and helpful. She has enjoyed working in academic libraries for over 19 years connecting and collaborating with researchers and educators in several Higher Education institutions.
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